What graphics card do I need for 60 FPS in The First Descendant at 1080p?

By our estimate (±30%), the RTX 3060 is the least powerful of our 10 reference cards to reach 60 FPS at 1080p High, at about 68 FPS. No published benchmark of The First Descendant at that setting is in our data to confirm it.

Can a GTX 1650 run The First Descendant?

By our estimate it gets about 55 FPS at 1080p Low (playable) and 35 FPS at 1080p High (playable), each ±30%.

What are the minimum system requirements for The First Descendant?

Steam lists GeForce GTX 1050Ti / AMD Radeon RX 570 / Intel Arc A380 graphics, Intel i5-3570 / AMD FX-8350 and 8 GB of RAM as the minimum.

FPS estimates

The First Descendant FPS

2024
59/100 · 113 ratings

Action
Adventure
Role-playing
Free To Play

Estimates only · ±30%

Check FPS on your GPU

The First Descendant was released in 2024. No published benchmark of The First Descendant is in our dataset yet, so every FPS figure on this page is an estimate. Steam lists GeForce GTX 1050Ti / AMD Radeon RX 570 / Intel Arc A380 as the minimum graphics card, a mid-range card by today's standards.

Frame rate cap: none on record. We have no record of an engine frame limit for The First Descendant, so our estimates assume it runs uncapped. V-Sync, an in-game limiter or your monitor's refresh rate can still hold it lower.

No measured data yet. We have not found a published benchmark of The First Descendant with a source we can link. The figures below come from our model and carry a ±30% band. How the estimate works.

Our estimate on 10 reference GPUs

Estimate ±30%

Model figures, not measurements: dashed bars with their ±30% band. How they are made.

RTX 4090236165–307
RTX 5070 Ti185130–241
Radeon RX 9070 XT185130–241
RTX 407013897–179
Radeon RX 7800 XT11883–153
RTX 4060 Ti10674–138
RTX 40608459–109
RTX 30606848–88
Radeon RX 66005941–77
GTX 16503525–46

Cards that run The First Descendant at 60+ FPS

1080p High · cheapest first

Current cards, by launch price. Solid chips are measured results; dashed ones are our estimate (±30%).

Intel Arc B580launch price $249≈61 FPSAmazon
Radeon RX 7600launch price $269≈65 FPSAmazon
RTX 5060launch price $299≈93 FPSAmazon

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System requirements

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Minimum

GPU: GeForce GTX 1050Ti / AMD Radeon RX 570 / Intel Arc A380
CPU: Intel i5-3570 / AMD FX-8350
RAM: 8 GB